Doepfer

So long as all the pieces you play are all in the same key! (Or you  
know a *really* quick piano tuner)

Martin

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On 10 Oct 2014, at 19:06, "David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@yahoo.com  
[Doepfer_a100]" <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Most musics of the world are in forms of microtonality -  it is only  
> really western music that decided to carve the octave up into equal  
> steps. If you divide the octave up with reference to the harmonic  
> series you get microtonal scales. It's part of the reason that I  
> like it - apart from the sound - it just fits the natural order of  
> things a bit better than Equal Temperament.
>
> Obviously it's a personal choice through......
>
> It's worth checking out La Monte Young's Well Tuned Piano if you can  
> or Terry Riley's Harp Of The New Albion  - once you have heard a  
> concert grand piano tuned in just intonation equal tempered pianos  
> never sound very good again!! Also Pauline Olliveros's Roots of the  
> Moment CD - just intonation tuned accordion with time lag  
> accumulator digital processing.
>
> David
>
> www.movingisliving.co.uk
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 10 Oct 2014, at 17:18, achtung_999  
> heinrich.himmelwasser@gmail.com [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com 
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> And, not unimportantly, people in the so called "old music" and  
>> Baroque music scenes are still verbally slaying each other over  
>> that one Martin :D
>> Not everyone agrees on which tuning Bach intended that collection  
>> of pieces to be played in.
>>
>> Ernst
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Martin Fay martin@martinfay.com  
>> [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> Intonation or temperament are other terms for micro-tuning, it was  
>> a big thing a few centuries ago when keyboard instruments were  
>> being invented. "The Well Tempered Klavier" by Bach is a historic  
>> reference to this.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 10 Oct 2014, at 10:12, "achtung_999 heinrich.himmelwasser@gmail.com 
>>  [Doepfer_a100]" <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This thread is getting better and better! Thanks for all the other  
>>> mentioned alternatives.
>>> Nicholas what do you mean with AFX scales? Microtonal tuning  
>>> existed several decades before Richard D. James began talking  
>>> about it last month ;-)
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:44 AM, David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@yahoo.com 
>>>  [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>>
>>> www.movingisliving.co.uk
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 10 Oct 2014, at 02:43, Nicholas Keller maq163x2@gmail.com  
>>> [Doepfer_a100] <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> That A.Sys one doesn't do eastern or "AFX" scales either, only  
>>>> semitones in various configurations
>>>>
>>>> Sent from the future
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 9, 2014, at 8:07 PM, "Loren Nerell lnerell@earthlink.net  
>>>> [Doepfer_a100]" <Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How about Analogue Systems RS130, Programmable Scale Generator?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.analoguesystems.co.uk/modules/rs130.htm
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: "David Kellett davidkellettwoulf@yahoo.com [Doepfer_a100]"
>>>>> Sent: Oct 9, 2014 5:06 AM
>>>>> To: "doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com"
>>>>> Subject: [Doepfer_a100] Quantizing to Alternative tuning
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a module or modules that could  
>>>>> be set up to take control voltages and quantized them to a non  
>>>>> western scale. I'm thinking about making a price of music that  
>>>>> is tuned to harmonics and would like to be able to quantize  
>>>>> sequencers, other controllers to pitches that I determine  
>>>>> beforehand. I hope that makes sense.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course I could laboriously tune sequencers to the correct  
>>>>> pitches but I don't know how to do this with say the output of a  
>>>>> random or LFO source or ribbon controller etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>> www.movingisliving.co.uk
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Take care.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Loren
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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